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Stacking The Shelves [18] June 17th

Stacking The Shelves is hosted at Tynga’s Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

This week I have been good and requested only a couple of books on Edelweiss.
I got one of the two so I am very happy. It should be quite different from the books I have read in the past, so I am excited.

Edelweiss

The Genius Plagueby David Walton

What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it.
Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother Neil, an analyst at the NSA, is committed to its destruction. Is the human race the master in this symbiotic relationship, or are we becoming the pawns of a subtly dominating and utterly alien intelligence?

This sounds like a completely different take on apocalyptic literature and I am very curious about how the author approached this idea.

And that’s it for this week!

Have you read this book or do you plan to?

Are you excited about reading any particular books you got this week?

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